Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for a demonstration by 50 emigrant Serbs outside Blair House one day, the visit went off virtually without a hitch. At week's end, Nixon and Tito issued a joint communique heralding Yugoslavia's policy of nonalignment as "an important factor in international relations." Then Tito flew on to Houston for a tour of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center and to Los Angeles for a visit to the McDonnell Douglas plant before returning home via Canada this week...
Financial Obstacles. Few appreciate the situation better than Michael Palmer, 29, a resident at Boston City Hospital. More interested in treating a variety of wounds and ailments than in research or specialization, Palmer helped set up the Cincinnati Free Clinic while serving a two-year hitch with the U.S. Public Health Service. Eventually he would like to participate in a prepaid group practice in the inner city, though he realizes that financial obstacles may well force him to shelve his ambition and settle in the suburbs. "Nothing in this area is going to be ready for me by the time...
Ever since he became Vice President of the United States, the son of Theofrastes Anagnostopoulos had yearned to pay an official visit to his family homeland in the hills of southern Greece. There was only one hitch. The country had been taken over in 1967 by right-wing army officers, headed by Colonel George Papadopoulos, who had ousted Parliament, canceled the constitution and subjected a number of political opponents to imprisonment and torture. Last July, when the fiercely anti-Communist officers showed no signs of restoring democratic government soon, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut off all military...
...only hitch was that the guard, who claimed to have been offered a $43,300 payoff by the conspirators, had secretly informed the military police. When the conspirators parked the rented Volkswagen outside the prison walls at 3 a.m., three military Jeeps swooped down, and out piled a score of machine-gun-brandishing soldiers who arrested them. Lady Fleming, who had in the meantime gone for a drive in the country, was picked up at 5:40 a.m., when she returned home...
...Died. T.C. Jones, 50, one of show business' greatest female impersonators; of cancer; in Duarte, Calif. Jones had studied for the ministry and done a hitch in the Navy before crashing Broadway with his imitations of Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis and Luise Rainer in New Faces of '56. After that, he swished his way to further success in nightclubs and on television. "Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman," Jones once boasted. "When I pulled off my wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly...